Mat Pendle - Wipika Wing 1998

Mat Pendle was product manager and head of development in the early days at Wipika and then Takoon, and worked alongside Bruno Legaignoux. In 2003, he broke off on his own to start Globerider Kites, now Globe Kites (GK), to allow him more design freedom on his own terms.

Check out this Dec. '06 Podcast http://www.asnews.net/?p=16 to hear Mat talk about what it was like in the early days with Bruno, the bow kite versus C-Kite debate, where he thinks kiteboarding is heading, and GKs innovations for the new 07 kites, the Sonic2 and Trix, both SLE/Bow designs.

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